Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

St. Charles branch of the American Association of University Women welcomes Michelle Nichols, an Astro Educator who will share her program about women involved with the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...

Every other Monday at 9 a.m., Don Hladiuk joins a Zoom call with a group of 30 to 45 students. They are eager to learn about space and astronomy, which Hladiuk is more than willing to talk about.

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission to carry four people around the moon and back could launch as early as this Sunday, Feb. 8. Backup ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

Wednesday marked 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven crew members. The mission was not ...